Talk:Laura Cooper

A fact from Laura Cooper appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 21 December 2019 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that U.S. Department of Defense civil servant Laura Cooper has noted that she has frequently been the "only woman in the room" for much of her career?

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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 09:10, 5 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Laura Cooper

... that U.S. Department of Defense civil servant Laura Cooper (pictured) described the Russian intervention in Ukraine as "a brazen violation of international law" after Russia attacked Ukrainian vessels in late 2018?

Reviewed: Carrots and Sticks

Created by Mwinog2777 (talk). Nominated by Coffeeandcrumbs (talk) at 23:44, 25 October 2019 (UTC).[reply]

This article is new enough and long enough. The image is in the public domain, the hook facts are cited inline, the article is neutral and I detected no copyright or plagiarism issues. @Coffeeandcrumbs: A QPQ needs to be done. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:42, 29 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- @Cwmhiraeth: done. --- Coffeeandcrumbs 07:14, 29 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you. This nomination is good to go. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 18:29, 29 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Cwmhiraeth: I have changed "diplomat" to "civil servant" as that is a more accurate description for her position. --- Coffeeandcrumbs 04:38, 3 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I keep coming by to promote this, but keep passing it by because the hook seems rather obvious: wouldn't someone who works in the State Department say such a thing? Perhaps you can provide a hookier fact. Yoninah (talk) 22:50, 4 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Cwmhiraeth and Yoninah: ALT 1 ... that U.S. Department of Defense civil servant Laura Cooper (pictured) has noted that she has frequently "been the only woman in the room" for much of her career? --- C&C (Coffeeandcrumbs) 23:04, 4 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Approving ALT 1. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:08, 5 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

add Trump administration attempted to persuade to not cooperate?[edit]

The day before Laura Cooper was scheduled to give voluntary, private testimony, she received a letter warning her that the White House had ordered executive branch officials not to give documents or testimony to Congress "under these circumstances."

X1\ (talk) 20:41, 26 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

X1\,

Done.--- Coffeeandcrumbs 00:51, 27 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Marital status[edit]

An anonymous editor tried to add "married." No reference and out of place. Already taken down, but we need to watch closely.Mwinog2777 (talk) 18:08, 15 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

In the hearing, Ms. Cooper raised her left hand and showed a wedding ring. But I understand that Wikipedia ONLY accepts in-print documentation from refereed sources that it approves. MaynardClark (talk) 00:13, 21 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]